ZDNet: Is BSD the tortoise?(Jun 29, 2001, 16:56)
This columnist says Linux may be the "hare" part of the tortoise
and hare equation, with BSD showing slow but steady progress,
including (but not limited to) Microsoft's acceptance of FreeBSD as
a supported .NET platform.

GNU Project and Kerberos Developers Receive USENIX
Achievement Awards(Jun 29, 2001, 15:15)
"The contributions of these two groups to the technical
community have been incredible. The Lifetime Achievement and STUG
awards are simply a way for the technical community to thank them
for the invaluable tools and resources they have given us," said
Andrew Hume, Vice President of the USENIX Association. "It's
difficult to imagine how most of us could do systems work without
using GNU Project derived tools."

Microsoft to Make a Deal? A Collection of News on Yesterday's Ruling.(Jun 29, 2001, 14:48)
In the name of keeping the contributions queue clear for Linux
news for the rest of the day, here's a collection of Microsoft
items related to yesterday's news regarding the court vacating
Microsoft's breakup. The biggest development is, of course, that
Microsoft may be willing to make a deal, and that the coalition of
state attorneys general that drove much of the case may be willing
to come to the table for resolution. Reactions to the ruling range
from relief to angry defiance, as this sampling shows.

EnGarde Secure Linux Security Advisory: xinetd(Jun 29, 2001, 14:45)
This seems to be the day for security announcements. "There are
bugs (both security and non-security) in xinetd. The non-security
bug causes xinetd to fail after the first connection attempt and
the security bug can potentially lead to a root comprimise via a
buffer overflow."

SuSE Security Announcement: samba(Jun 29, 2001, 14:15)
"In addition to the remotely exploitable bug, there exists
another vulnerability which is fixed with the update packages we
provide below: temporary files are being handled insecurely so that
an attacker with local access to the system can increase her
privileges. This error was discovered by Marcus Meissner, Caldera.
This specific problem has been fixed with the release of the
samba-2.0.9 version. samba release version 2.0.8 intended to
correct this local problem, but due to an error, 2.0.9 contained
the complete fix."

The Register: Usenet creator dead(Jun 29, 2001, 12:59)
"One of the two men behind Usenet, Jim Ellis, has died aged 45.
He died at his home in Pennsylvania yesterday morning after losing
his battle with non-Hodgkins lymphoma."